Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

It is comedy the richest sort of comedy and suddenly tragedy, tragedy so sudden and surprising that it fairly holds you up standing. Forster Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction Topic: Classics, General, Humorous / General Product Information. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Where Angels Fear to Tread is an accomplished, harrowing, and malevolently funny book, in which familiar notions of vice and virtue collapse underfoot and the best intentions go mortally awry. This book is available for free download in a number of formats - including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. Forster anticipated the themes of cultural collision and the sterility of the English middle class that he would develop in A Room with a View and A Passage to India. But that Lilia should have had a baby - and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! - are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected.

Sadness follows, and more pearls are clutched. When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. Mayhem ensues, and the baby ends up dead (dont worryno one boils it). He's got a country behind him that's upset people from the beginning of the world.' In it, there is an English widow named Lilia Herriton, and she falls in love with a younger Italian.

He's a bounder, but he's not an English bounder. Forsters first novel is called Where Angels Fear to Tread, and it was published in 1905. 'Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! Look at this letter! The man who wrote it will marry her, or murder her, or do for her somehow.

Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster